The two collaborated on The Third Mind and showcased the cut-up technique by using text, photographs and newspaper clippings.

Burroughs and Gysin may have popularized the cut-up technique in the 1950s and 1960s, but the method itself originated from 1920s Dadaist writer Tristan Tzara. Dada poetry was chance poetry, and Tzara’s recipe involved pulling random words from a bag.

Sound a little familiar? The magnetic poetry we rearrange on the fridge can feel a bit like Tzara’s chance poetry. It’s almost as if we’re making Dada poetry on the reg now.@BAMINate [Photo source: Art Tattler]